Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-03
NEW HAVEN ENTERPRIsE.

Completion and Occupation of the
 New Building of Stoddard, Kim
 beriy k Co. on Water Street.
 Passers by on Custom House Square and people coming uptown from the Union depot have noted with interest the erection of large and fine looking and strong building on Water street, near State. This is the
 new headquarters of Stoddard, Kimberly &
 Co.,, the wholesale grocers and importers of
 molasses who were formerly at 306, sos, BIO
 and 312 State street, but have now just re-
 moved to the new building in question, 213
 and 215 Water street. The premises were in
 some confusion yesterday as is to be expected
 on moving day times, whether as to house hold effects or the stock of prominent bus mess house, and the joiners were still at work putting in the finishing touches. The build | ing is among the largest and most notable erected in this city for a year past, and IS | unquestionably with it's equipments one of | the finest in this class of trade in the New England States It possesses every conven- fence and every necessary equipment, in l cluding that great essential ill such busl- ness as that carried on by the | frm-viz.: plenty of room. Each floor | of the five stories is large enough for bat talion drill of the Second regiment, and \ Gl6r6 IS 8 SpdclOuS c0llar D6SlQ0 WILL uucly cemented floor in which a great many hogs ] heads of molasses can be stored at one time, a requisite the firm has long needed in con- sequence of it's heavy importing of this pop | ular substance invaluable on buckwheat cakes. On the first floor is the firms main office, and adjoining it the private office, both very tastily dressed in southern pine. The firms new mammoth safe, one of the largest
 made, has just been moved in and the office desks are in place. Behind the main office is the cigar and tobacco room, and
 back of and fanking that is an abundance of room for general merchan- disc. The second floor is devoted to all case goods and other merchandise except a room in the rear, where all the packing of goods
 will be done On the third floor is a ten
 horse power Otis gas engine which runs the two large elevators, ,one of which is exclusive ly run by power, while the other can be run
 by hand or by power from the engine if
 needed. When the elevator starts from
 floor the opening on that floor is at once
 guarded from approach by high wooden
 frame which drops automatically into place,
 that no one need take a plunge down the elevator we'll. The third, fourth and fifth floors are devoted to the storage of flour
 From the upper windows of the building on the south gets fine view of Long wharf, New Haven harbor and it's east and west shores, the old and new lighthouses and the breakwater, while close by, down below,
 is the freight yard and tracks of the Derby railroad, and little beyond the Union depot.
 The firm heavily import molasses, which
 they ship all over the New England States,
 while for the past year they imported, be- side that brought direct to New Haven, large
 supplies of the article which came to Boston direct, and was sold from that point. In all
 the firm have 36,00O square feet of flooring in their building, while each floor is high between joints. The rnembers of the firm are F. q Stoddard ex- representative from New Haven to the legis- lature, A. H. Kimberly and c. B. Gilbert. The new building is one hundred and twenty five feet in length and fifty feet in width. The brick came from the Shares brickyard. The mason builder was Elizur H. Sperry, the carpenter builders Kenney & Phelps. The premises are heated by steam, put in by the New Haven Steam Heating company. Fred E. Willard, the carpenter foreman, re- ceives very complimentary words for his share of the work in equipping and ad.1ning the premises.